The section provides a description of the main windows, menus and shortcuts within the IDE, and provides information about how to configure the IDE preferences and how to use the menus.
Workspaces
A workspace can be thought of as a logical grouping of projects, settings, preferences and metadata.
IDE Preferences
Preferences is the Eclipse term for user-configurable options, and you can use them to control many aspects of the IDE behavior.
Projects
An Eclipse project consists of a directory, project settings files and at least the contents of the directory.
Using the Windows and Menus
The main Eclipse window consist of number of subwindows that form the current perspective - a general name for the set of subwindows that target a particular development task.
Navigation Shortcuts
Although you can find all of the commands on the user menus and buttons, there are often ways that invoke some of the commands quicker.